MSND+notes

So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.

Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear, As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.

About the wood go swifter than the wind, And Helena of Athens look thou find: All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow, Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!

Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!

O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom! You thief of love! what, have you come by night And stolen my love's heart from him?

Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!

Between our statures; she hath urged her height; And with her personage, her tall personage, Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.

Because I am so dwarfish and so low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak; How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.

Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn.

Bottom's Dream

Last night I had the most amazing dream I was in the forest lush and green And with me was my Fairy Queen It was so perfect it could only have been a dream.

Beauty was in everything Making me so happy I could sing And our love was indeed no fling I was in love with her and everything.

It was so perfect it couldn't last Although so long it went so fast And now just a memory in the past Because all great things never last.